As we begin our post-season testing with over 1200 athletes, I wanted to take a few paragraphs to speak directly to our top rated athletes… We have a hand full of players that have trained with us for several years. And over that time they have worked extremely hard to get to the top of

Throwing med balls always seems to go hand in hand with power training. Exercises like shot tosses, scoop tosses, crunch throws, jump throws, chest passes and partner variations (mb tennis) have been used in our programs for years. These activities build power in several ways: Coordination: concentric synchronization of the lower body to assist the

Often, when discussing training exercises that give us the most bang for the buck in vertical power training, the list doesn’t get too far beyond the Olympic lifts (clean/jerk and snatch). And there is no disputing the fact that these two or three lifts deliver results, but the problem with these lifts is centered around

Using targets to enhance daily performance is nothing new to this industry. We often will use verbal encouragement (clapping, loud words of motivation, etc.), or visual targets (races, marking off a target point to jump or run to, distances, etc.) to enhance testing performance, but at AthleteFIT we have used technology to enhance daily training

In our program, warm ups for speed training sessions can be very different from day to day. This is because we are looking to progress from simple activation, mobility, stability exercises, into rhythmic movements that mimic the specific focus of the day. We want to finish off our progression with a simulated activity that enhances

Research suggest that higher levels of fitness set you up to handle the demands of sport. So how does one achieve a “higher level of fitness,” and when do we start this process, and how exactly does it effect performance on the field or court? As seen in the picture below, taken from Edwards and

Many aspects of sport are progressed as players develop, but speed and agility training is often not one of these things. In basketball and soccer we start off playing small sided games at 6- or 7- years old (3v3) and then progress to 4v4, 5v5 and in soccer 6v6, 8v8 and finally 11v11. We have

In 2005 we created a fitness test for soccer known as the CAP Test or CAP Soccer Specific Interval Test, that has now transcended the sport of soccer and has proven to be a great test for many team sports. We started playing around with new fitness tests after talking to dozens of coaches who

How much time do you typically allow for ‘stretching’ before strength training sessions? What stretches, or type of stretching should we do? The strength and conditioning industry has many different ideas on if, when and what type of warm ups work best. Some studies point towards a 15-20 minute ‘dynamic’ warm up, while others show

Seth Godin wrote a post called “Coming from a Loud Place” where he talked about all the companies that have made an impact on society, and how they didn’t start off with multimillion dollar ad campaigns. Instead, they focused on the experience that the user would ultimately have with their product (making it great). Is